Speaking of cheating. They have a robot brothel in Houston now. Our friends mentioned it, asking if it should be considered cheating... but it depends on how realistic the robots are. If they can learn your name, can interact with you emotionally... pretty sure that's cheating in my book, no matter however they put it. (well, especially how they put it, but you know...)
It wouldn't seem at first to be practical for to be the cause. Is a robot really going to replace a real human-being. Well.. the reality is, our chemistry is wired to respond to things that behave or mimic us in very emotional ways. If you can rebutt that connection, cool. I wouldn't go as far as to say that we should be scared a lover would run off with a robot, but I would think the emotional attachment to a fictional human-being would be very disruptive for a relationship in the very least. Especially if that person plays with it enough that they build a significant connection/persona around it. After all it would check all the boxes you tell it to, listens to all your problems and with some extra tech, it can even behave however you want as well...
There's already people who are attached to 3D-printed "robots". I watched an episode from a show about how people who were really into it online. I wish I could remember the name of it, because it was available online and was really good. There was a French lady in it who decided to marry one that didn't move. It was just something she made with a 3D printer iirc and parts. Some of them don't even do anything. They're just mannequins. But, they built them to be pretend.
Humans are very skilled social creatures, especially with regard to mimicry. That was so clear during that show. It's weird how she seemed to have developed robot-like features herself, while trying to make it seem "relatable" to the cameras. So from that perspective, I can understand and even empathize where some may decide in a relationship to discourage/prohibit just pornography. Maybe that does transition off-screen. Though I think with most people (not all!), it requires a bigger mental connection than just skin-to-skin to want to be with someone long-term, and pornography and robots aren't going to cut it... but those who are having issues, they may seek those "activities" as an outlet and maybe in some instances it bridges out to other behaviors...
Myself, I tend to think of porn like reading a book, but with mostly explicit scenes. We all technically watch porn if we have ever seen most Hollywood movies, in my view. And yeah, people do think tend to feel like they need to be like that in their own bedroom, so I wouldn't say it doesn't affect us either...
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